The Moms Meet; Gals of '44 Can't Be Beat...

Stefan says...

With Sean's mom visiting us for the first time for a long weekend, we decided it would be a good time for our moms to meet.  So, on Saturday, we treated Jacque (Sean's) & Carolyn (Stefan's) to a post-Mothers' Day outing - a matinee showing of "Hairspray," then on to dinner at The Helmand Restaurant (Afghan cuisine) in downtown Baltimore.  All of us very much enjoyed the movie.  "Hairspray" is set in the very early 1960s, which had the moms recalling the styles and sensibilities of their teenage years, like not being allowed to wear pants to school (dresses & skirts only!), saddle shoes and penny loafers, and crinolines (Carolyn remembers her mother having to stretch them over open umbrellas and starching them, and Jacque remembers them sometimes being uncomfortably itchy...but anything for fashion, I guess?).  Funny to think that both women were wearing the same styles, listening to the same music, and watching the same tv shows simultaneously on opposite coasts of the country (Jacque, born in July 1944, was raised in San Diego, California, while Carolyn, born in October 1944, was raised in Baltimore, Maryland).